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That’s the proportion of Americans who say they have a good deal of confidence in the wisdom of the American people when it comes to making political decisions, a seven-point decline from the number who expressed that view a decade ago, and a steep 20-point decline from the 1960s.

That’s the proportion of the U.S. public that agrees with the statement that “as Americans we can always find a way to solve our problems and get what we want,” a 16-point drop from the 74% who thought so in 2002.

That’s the percentage of white evangelicals ages 18-29 who now say they approve of the job President Bush is doing, a 42- percentage-point drop since 2002.

Nearly a third of Americans (31%) express the opinion that Mormonism is not a Christian religion; white evangelical Protestants are most likely to take this view.

That’s the percentage of Americans who say that electing a woman president would be a good thing, a 55% majority say they do not think the gender for the president matters and 9% think a woman president would be a bad thing.

That’s the percentage of parents who say they have rules about the kinds of internet sites their teenaged children can or cannot visit, as well as rule about what kinds of information their children can share with people they talk to online.